tion of a small segmentlike appendicle on the inside of 
each of the five pieces composing the stamineous crown. 
_ The drawing was taken from a sample which flowered 
this summer, for the first time, in the greenhouse at the 
nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
A partly standard and. partly twining undershrub, not 
recorded in. the Hortus Kewensis. Leaves opposite, ob- 
longly. ovate, lanceolate, two inches in length or. more, 
with scarcely half that breadth, slightly villous, obso- 
letely nerved, with a pale prominent midrib: petioles 
several times shorter than the blade, cylindrical, villous. 
Cymes many along the branches, interpetiolar, several- 
flowered, small, shorter than the leaves, villous; flowers 
small, cream-coloured; peduncle upright,. filiform, longer — 
than the cyme, pedicles villous, about the length of the 
flower, furnished at the base with several times shorter vil- 
lous bractelets. Calyx villous 5-cleft, campanulate, of the 
colour of the petioles, twice shorter than the corolla or more, 
segments ovately lanceolate. _ Corolla of one colour, urceo- 
lately’ rotate; limb 5-parted, twice longer than the tube, 
about two lines across; bearded on the inside, segments ob- 
long taper-pointed spreading, standing apart. Stamineous 
crown of five pieces, each piece compressed, undivided, 
without’ an appendage on the inside: anthers terminated 
by a membrane: pollen-masses upright, fixed at the base. 
- Pistil equal to the tube of the corolla; stigma pale with a 
pointed bifid apex. Follicles (indehiscent seedvessels) smooth. 
Seeds comose (tufted). 
